2016 has not started yet and already looks exciting to me! I already have plans for several conferences and I’d like to share it with you all in case you’re interested in some topics.
I’ll be presenting at Technical Cloud Day, on January 26th a local Italian event and I’ll be speaking about Azure Machine Learning Azure Stream Analytics ...

Last week I spoke at the SQL Konferenz in Darmstad near Frankfurt. The conference was great and I meet a lot of good SQL friends over there. For anyone interested here you can find slide & demos of the session I delivered:
(Near) Real-Time Data Integration with SQL Server, On-Premises & Cloud ...

OK - you've been hearing about ''cloud'' (I really dislike that term, but whatever) for over two years. You've equated it with just throwing some VM's in some vendor's datacenter - which is certainly part of it, but not the whole story. There's a whole world of - wait for it - *coding* out there that you should be working on. If you're a ...

Last week Microsoft announced several new offerings for “Big Data” - and since I’m a stickler for definitions, I wanted to make sure I understood what that really means. What is “Big Data”? What size hard drive is that? After all, my laptop has 1TB of storage - is my laptop “Big Data”?
There are actually a few definitions for this term, most ...